[Ole Okie]

Interestingly enough, the legislature of South Carolina (as I recall the state) once decided that pi was confusing the school kids and was too difficult to remember and interfered with tidy calculations. They therefore passed a law that the value of pi in South Carolina would henceforth be 3.00000.

Unfortunately, those well-meaning souls settled on a number whose square root is also irrational, and would be no simpler to handle than that for a more precise value for pi.

I guess they should have rounded up to 4.000. .

[reg45]

Interestingly enough, the legislature of South Carolina (as I recall the state) once decided that pi was confusing the school kids and was too difficult to remember and interfered with tidy calculations. They therefore passed a law that the value of pi in South Carolina would henceforth be 3.00000.

I heard that it was Indiana. Which one (or perhaps both) did it?